Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.
XENOPHONWhen a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.
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The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.
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Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.
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Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.
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Success Should Never Breed Complacency.
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Success always calls for greater generosity—though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed.
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I am a stranger in all countries.
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In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
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Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
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We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.
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A Number of Friends is of more Worth than a Flock of Sheep, or of Goats, or than a Herd of Oxen.
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Do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice?
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Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
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